Lesson 4 - April 28, 2008

Things we explored today while finishing our mini-project:

• Moving to an X,Y Coordinate
• Adding a Background
• Recording Your Voice

New Things We Learned:

• How to Create Your Own Background or Your Own Sprite
  

Please answer these questions:

• What problems did you have?
• Were you able to solve them? If so, how?
• Did you make any new discoveries?

Challenge: If you were to write a program to get your Sprite to turn around one complete circle and had to use the "Repeat" command and the "Turn 60 Degrees" command, what would your program look like? Please write the commands in your comment.

Lesson 3 - April 14, 2008

Things we explored today:

• Color Change


• Adding a Background


• X, Y Coordinates


• Record Your Voice
  

Please comment on the blog and answer the questions below:

• What problems did you have?


• How did you and your partner solve them?


• Did you make any new discoveries?


• What is the next thing you will work on in your program?

Lesson 2 - April 7, 2008

Things we explored today:

• Repeat command
• Forever command
• How to select a new sprite
• How to change a costume

Please comment on the blog. You can use the following questions to guide you:

• Did your program work for you the first time?
• What problems did you encounter?
• How did you solve them?
• Any new discoveries that you made?

For Next Week:

• Think about how you could add a background.

Lesson 1 - March 31, 2008

You have been introduced to the programming language, "Scratch". Tell us what you think about Scratch.
Answer these questions:

• What did you learn today?
  
• What discoveries did you make when you tested things out yourself?
• What are you looking forward to learning?
  
• What are you wondering about?

Challenge: For next time, think about how you can get the cat to move backwards 10 steps.
Miss Capalbo & Mrs. Dlott

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